Re: Anton's amendment

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

>    Debian acknowledges as free some licenses that require that the
>    source of all derived works is distributed in the form
>    original_source+patch.  If you have two works covered by such
>    license then there is no permissible way to distribute the source
>    of the combined work (unless the combined work is merely
>    aggregation of independent derivatives of both works).

Distribute a build system that applies a patch against work A which
turns it into a patch against work B. Applying this results in work C.
Pain? Yes. Possible? Yes.

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